I cross the 500 point barrier for the first time, hitting 5 bingos in one game: ENPLANED, VARIANCE, NANOTUBE, ISOMERIC and CROSSTIE. I can get maybe one bingo per game, but five was completely out of control.

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In all fairness to Microsoft, I received a new 360 three weeks after I called in my red ring problem. Just in time for some Call of Duty 4.

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Behind by 22pts, I bingo with UnSUITED and end the game. The other three players are left sitting with seven tiles in their racks and waiting for their turn to come up. I laugh a lot. I’m not a super duper player, so I’ll take my moments when I can.

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Alongside my dead XBox360, I also finally retired my TiVo. Now, my TiVo didn’t die, I just replaced it with an hi-def unit from Dish Network. In contrast to my virtually disposable 360, which lasted about eight months, my TiVo is still cranking along after seven years. It’s a 30 hour unit I won in the great TiVo essay giveaway of 2000 and except for a couple of sad weeks with a broken remote, it served well, recording the sublime and the ridiculous with equal aplomb. Take a bow.

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When I was baby I looked like a pig
my nose a snout and my ears were too big
my mother would poke at the hole
at the back of my head where my brain was exposed
I didn’t know it then, but never again
would recapture those wonderful days

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Matt and Kelly Sue were expecting newbaby Henry Leo DeFraction on September 21st, 2007 but I had this weird gut feeling about it all about a month ago:

Wed Aug 08 13:43:47 2007
[13:44] Han: hey if the baby comes early and pops out on my birthday, will you name him Han-ry?
[13:46] Matt Fraction: yes

So guess what happened on September 9th, 2007?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY #ZERO, HAN-RY LEO DEFRACTION!

This is almost certainly the last time I’ll be allowed to say the word Han-ry again, so I figured I’d go for it.  Also?  Fear my magic baby predicting abilities, people.

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Meet Fat Cobra. My assault on the Marvel Universe begins today.

Immortal Iron Fist #8 by Brubaker/Fraction/Aja, in stores now.

I think that outfit makes my butt look a little big.

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Speaking of them Hammer Museum Conversations, I was also in the audience for this hilarious session between Jeff Garlin and Patton Oswalt late last year, where they go back and forth about comedy and being comedians.� If you listen carefully you can probably hear me laugh, because I laughed a lot during this.

Download here.

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One for $20, both for $35, from the inimitable Clinton Reno.
Buy one or both here.

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Purchased from Fleet Street Scandal

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